immense burden

collocation in English

meaningsofimmenseandburden

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immense
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmens/us
/ɪˈmens/
extremely large in size ...
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burden
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɜː.dən/us
/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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(Definition ofimmenseandburdenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is clearly one reason for probation officers labouring under animmenseburdenabout which we can only sympathise.
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It will be animmenseburdenon local administration.
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It is very important to understand the damage done by theimmenseburdenwhich stock-financing imposes on our industry.
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The nation is bearing animmenseburdenof taxation at the moment.
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Secondly, there is the financial conditions under which we are working in this country, and the third is theimmenseburdenof taxation.
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At present, we carry thisimmenseburdenand it gives us very little result in terms of security.
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I should have thought that this was not a tremendously large sum in comparison with theimmenseburdencarried by the country today.
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After all, a tank costs £38,000, which is animmenseburden.
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Animmenseburdenhas been placed upon local authorities in respect of housing.
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It is a dangerous thing to put thisimmenseburdenon the rates without having some idea of what is being done.
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Or, at any rate, if he is to prove it, what animmenseburdenof proof you are throwing upon him.
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It will relieve them of animmenseburdenof work and it will relieve them of the most odious decisions.
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Will these agricultural facilities help to reduce theimmenseburdenof interest rate that the banks now charge to the farmers?
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Among the national causes there is, first and foremost, theimmenseburdenof taxation—£3,000,000,000 a year.
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Besides that there is the increase—a matter of no small consideration—of theimmenseburdenof our indebtedness to that country.
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We have a hang-over, perhaps a hang-back, to the old times of animmenseburdenof debt.
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That puts animmenseburdenon the local authority and affects the other people on the council's waiting list.
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Normally he has to carry animmenseburdenof work and responsibility.
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In war time particularly, prices are animmenseburdenon that section of the wage-earners who have large families.
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